A famous mercenary with a distinguished career, known famously at home and abroad as the Silver Phantom of Kajarrum, Valarrik receives a letter from his sister and takes some personal time from his company to return home after ten long years. His trip nearly complete, he wakes to a living nightmare just a little over a day out from the town of his birth, and he finds himself suddenly taking center stage in events that could bring about not only an end to his own life but the existence of his homeland...maybe even all life across the lands, if he and the unprepared cast of characters he draws to himself can't find a way to stop the horror unleashed upon their homeland.